Legacy Systems

BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).

How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.

This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.

Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.

Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.

Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.

The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...

Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.

Core Banking Replacement and the Benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2009-
Banks around the globe, regardless of size are growing increasingly frustrated with their core banking systems. Many of the antiquated systems currently in place were built 20-30 years ago on technology that was current at the time. What are the costs and risks associated with core banking replacement? Find out.

The Connected Financial Institution: Part 1
[ Source: MuleSoft ]
October 2014-
Information Technology (IT) is no longer only the steward of middle- and back-office functions, but a critical business partner to growth. In this three-part white paper series, we'll explore the key challenges that financial institutions' IT functions must address: legacy modernization, in which we'll discuss how to bring legacy systems into the 21st century; data management, where we'll reflect on the need to access and aggregate data for regulatory reporting and customer facing initiatives; and ...

Understanding and Preparing for eDiscovery
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Business history will note 2006 as a watershed year for how banks and other companies tackled management of their generated electronic data. Marked changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) created the buzzword “eDiscovery,” causing companies to scramble to determine whether they were effectively managing their electronically stored data.

An IDC White Paper: B2B Collaboration Environments Â– On the Path to Modernization
[ Source: Axway ]
February 2015-
Today's business environment has reached a level of complexity that is unparalleled in history. With the increasingly global nature of business, a business community that is geographically and technologically diverse, and a general urgency to be flexible enough to respond to market changes, companies from all industries are struggling to compete. This white paper analyzes trends and related steps that companies are taking to evolve, consolidate, and modernize their legacy B2B collaboration exchange environments ...

The Connected Financial Institution: Part 1
[ Source: MuleSoft ]
October 2014-
Information Technology (IT) is no longer only the steward of middle- and back-office functions, but a critical business partner to growth. In this three-part white paper series, we'll explore the key challenges that financial institutions' IT functions must address: legacy modernization, in which we'll discuss how to bring legacy systems into the 21st century; data management, where we'll reflect on the need to access and aggregate data for regulatory reporting and customer facing initiatives; and ...

An Innovative Testing Framework for Insurance
[ Source: Dell ]
September 2014-
Insurers, like any other service-based businesses across the globe, can face many challenges when testing. With frequent changes in the insurance regulatory framework and increased focus on innovation and launching new products to fuel business growth, many insurers are focusing on improving testing strategies, which can catch errors early in the development phase and significantly reduce production costs. Read how Dell Insurance Services created an innovative testing framework that seeks to improve the quality of ...

How to Successfully Modernize Legacy Systems in Insurance
[ Source: Informatica ]
July 2013-
This white paper provides a data management perspective on modernizing legacy systems for life, property and casualty, and group insurers by examining business purposes, benefits, risks and dependencies while also avoiding common challenges of insurance legacy modernization.

In-house development is a complex, expensive, and time consuming process that requires coding in multiple languages, extensive testing on different platforms, and dedicated resources for ongoing updates and maintenance. IT teams need more efficient development and management tools for mobile enterprise applications to help them ...

How to Deliver a Global, Cross-Platform Mobile Application
[ Source: Verivo ]
July 2012-
When an enterprise sets out to create a strategic new mobile application, it simply cannot afford to gamble with the potential for failure. There are too many stakeholders, many of them with CxO titles, who have a great deal on the line - failure is not an option, and speed to market is essential. Without a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) you are risking complexity and connectivity problems jeopardizing your entire mobile project.

Research: 2012 Mobility Management: Best-in-Class Strategies
[ Source: Verivo ]
July 2012-
IT must consider enterprise mobility, like public and private cloud deployments, as essential IT infrastructure. The convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud (SoMoClo) provides opportunity for business transformation and resource realignment. In addition, Enterprise mobility itself has come of age, and can bring measurable business value to organizations that maintain their mobile infrastructure secure, compliant and optimized.

Read this study based on an online survey of over 260 organizations in 45 countries, to find out:

Improving Decisions Across the Customer Life Cycle
[ Source: Experian ]
June 2012-
It's more important than ever today for organizations to make the right customer decisions?and harder than ever to do. Companies know that the ability to repeatedly make the right customer decisions, day after day, is essential to profitable growth, sharper risk management and higher-performing portfolios. However, volatile, fast-moving markets, economic and regulatory change, and new sources of competition stand in the way.